When have people ever been unified?
After the flood, the families of Noah's three sons grew as God's blessing to be fruitful and multiply came to pass. As the population expanded, all people were united in their ancestry, in their language, and in their sin nature inherited from Adam and Eve. This sin nature led to human hearts in rebellion to God, each seeking its own way apart from God, and to mankind undertaking to build a great tower as a testament to a heart seeking its own glory in defiance of God almighty.
This week we begin studying in Genesis 11 and the record of the Tower of Babel. We'll study the significance of man's undertaking to build the tower and why God confused the languages of all the people. And we'll see how the philosophy of Babylon is still alive in the world today, and ask ourselves if our own hearts lean toward Babylon or toward God.
